The King's Speech

So I have had The King's Speech since September and haven't been in the mood to watch it. I probably should have sent it back and then got it sent back when I was in the mood for it. But this blog isn't about my Netflix habits, just about the movies that I watch on my Queue. The King's Speech was good, and it deserved all of the awards it received but I honestly was all that into it. Maybe it is because I am not much a history buff and history bores me in general.

I was watching it while I was working in my office. It wasn't a movie that took my attention away. I don't even have much to say about the movie. Other than Colin Firth was utterly amazing. I mean he seemed like he had a speech impediment. He played that role damn well. The timing was right and it was just perfect.

Currently I am watching Friday Night Lights streaming. I had watched seasons 1-3 and half of season 4 before, now I am catching up. I love this show. This show was definitely a diamond in the rough that never was truly found. Or was found too late. This show became popular long after it should have. I love me some Tim Riggins. I have to say I appreciate more of the earlier seasons with the original cast, but I like the additions and the way the script developed and the story progressed.

Take Me Home Tonight with a little The Town

So the choice was to stream a movie the other night, and I decided on Take Me Home Tonight. It wasn't a movie that I would have ever paid to watch in a theatre no way, but it wasn't terrible seeing as I saw it the whole way through. There have been movies where I have been like no way in hell am I wasting any more of my life on this movie. Take Me Home Tonight was not one of them, however I did multi-task during the movie, I was not able to just sit and watch it. I believe my laptop was in fact in my lap, and I was browsing facebook and probably my email too.

I think we have all had that moment when we ran into someone from high school, who was either a crush or a bully, and felt that what we have become wasn't good enough. And if you tell me that this has never happened to you, you are either a hermit who doesn't leave your basement, don't live where you went to school and never go back, or you were a popular kid or a bully. I have had that moment, even with people I would have called a friend in high school. I have skipped weddings I was invited to because I was not secure in what I had done with my life. Sad I know, but the truth.

We all have those moments where we want to be the best self we can be, and in a split second we feel it is not enough. I went through 14 months out of work in my field, and had to move home during that time. While I was home, I duck out of places if I saw someone I knew. Even now when I am less than six months outside of having my Master's, I have moments that I feel I haven't done enough with my life, because I am not married and have no kids. My peers from high school are married, and some have kids. I believe it is a constant thing that is just part of life.

This movie was basically just one of the run ins that spirals out of control. And parts of it were hilarious because I was putting myself in Matt's shoes and seeing how it would play out. I really thought that Wendy would get into Cambridge. Barry was funny, but I felt like he was the ultimate cliche of someone who is a loser after high school, I mean come on, he was a car salesman.

Overall it wasn't horrible, but I doubt that I will view it again. Unlike the other movie I just watched which was The Town, which hands down is one of my favorite movies. This was not on Netflix, but damn I had to mention it. I have seen that movie probably a dozen times and will continue to watch it at that pace. I absolutely love it, in fact I wanted to become a bank robber after I saw it in the theatre. (disclaimer, not really)

That movie is so bad ass. Ben Affleck is bad ass in it. I am not one to like action movies much, but damn this turned me on to them. I just watched the extended cut now, and there are some uber gory scenes, holy hell. And some shit made more sense after seeing the extended cut. Especially my favorite scene where Doug says to Jem, "I need you help. I can't tell you what it is, you can never ask me about it later, and we're gonna hurt some people." And Jem's response, "Who's car we gonna take?" I LOVE THAT SCENE! And then the after added in a lot of ah ha moments.

Now I am using my HuluPlus subscription instead of Netflix, I am soooo far behind in some of my shows. Maybe if I catch up I can keep up with one of my other blogs attached to this account. I attempt so much, and I am determined to actually make them succeed these days. Well until I Netflix again, I bid you adieu.

New Year, New Start

So I started this blog pretty much a year ago, after the purchase of my first BluRay player...well this year I am re-starting this blog, because well one entry is just pathetic. You see I was writing on a laptop with no "t" key and that is just downright annoying, and then I would get to my office computer and not remember what I wanted to write about the movies I watched. Well this new year has started with some fairly awesome purchases, first I purchased a new MacBook Pro, so the "t" key issue is now gone. I can type like a normal human being, or primate since apparently apes are now using iPads, but I digress. So I am currently sitting on my couch, debating what movies to watch on my Netflix queue.

Another purchase I made, and I must admit this was a splurge and a half. I purchased a new TV, and I went into the store planning on walking out with a 40" TV. Nope they didn't have it, and then I walked a little further down and saw that they had a 46" TV for $4 cheaper than I was planning on paying for the 40". Well duh, I currently have a 46" TV sitting in my living room, and well since I love my Netflix so much, I also decided on buying a second BluRay player, so I could stream in the living room and the bedroom.

Every night I watch TV on my queue. Lately it has been How I Met Your Mother. I believe I am currently in season 3. I had gotten so far behind in HIMYM that I decided to start over. And the 22 min episodes let's me watch an episode or two before I hit the sack. I had been re-watching One Tree Hill, but it got to Season 7 where Clay's ex-look-a-like surfaces and goes all crazy, and I am not the type to be able to watch crazy shit before bed.

Yesterday I watched a DVD from my Netflix, Just Go With It. That movie got a lot of bad reviews, but let me tell you I literally laughed out loud. By no means is every movie that is made going to be award worthy, but there are movies out there that are good, in a feel-good kind of way, and I think Just Go With It was. No Adam Sandler movie has every really been one that anyone in their right mind would be like yes that is going to win and Oscar, but we all laugh at them. Adam Sandler is funny as hell, and he does it in just about every movie he's ever made. There have been a few that I haven't seen, but in all that I have seen, laugh out loud movie.

I can't say that I would have paid to watch Just Go With It, in the theatre, but maybe AMC $6 before noon movies. I watched it in my office and I am surprised I didn't get more visits for how loud I was laughing. Was the movie predictable? You bet it was, but aren't most movies? I mean in recent movies there has only been on movie where I didn't see the ending coming at least somewhat, and that was Crazy, Stupid, Love. That movie I literally did not see that ending. Other than that movies are getting predictable. Does that make them a bad movie? No sometimes you want a movie that is going to give you exactly what you expect and want. I knew that in the end of this movie Adam and Jen Aniston's characters were going to be a couple, did I know how it was going to happen, nope not exactly, but I knew that was going to be the ending.

Maybe this is just the vast number of movies I watch, or just the fact that there are only so many plot lines that can be invented. There are some movies that are just so different, but that can only go so far. I mean look at No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits, even the title give you that they are similar. And I am not complaining, because I own over 200 movies, and on top of that I pay for Netflix, 3 DVDs at a time and I stream A LOT. So the movies being a little alike is not a factor for me. I love movie entertainment. To me it is similar to romance novels, they all follow the same structure. The lady in the book is going to find love in an unsuspecting place, and a lot of time it is someone they have a secret past with or not so secret, from there they are going to have issues with their love and it is going to be gone, but only to find it again and they ride off into the sunset. Romantic Comedies are the same, they follow the same structure for the most part. For me watching a RomCom is just like reading a romance novel. I pop one in when I am too lazy to read a romance novel.

Anyhow I went off on a tangent there. Hmm I am debating on King's Speech, I've had that DVD from Netflix since like September and not watched it. I've had personal reasons as to my lack of movie watching since September but that is not for me to get into here, if you are interested, you can read another blog linked to this account called Dear Keith. I also just got Friends With Benefits in the mail today. Or I am debating streaming a movie and I have 192 items on my instant watch queue, so the options are literally limitless. Well as I debate you will have to sit and wait, my next post will let you know what I decided on...until next time my dear movie lovers.